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Post by htmb on Feb 22, 2014 17:43:54 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2014 17:50:33 GMT
If it really weighed 1000 tonnes, it would have sunk through the pavement by now.
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Post by rikita on Feb 22, 2014 22:21:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2014 22:33:44 GMT
I am having difficulty seeing the statue.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2014 1:37:45 GMT
If I'm reading it correctly, it's the toes of a larger statue... Right, Rikita?
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Post by rikita on Feb 23, 2014 22:16:23 GMT
exactly, it is just the toes ...
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2014 1:07:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2014 13:27:26 GMT
Super photos.
I was just thinking how somebody totally unfamiliar with Christianity might freak out at that 2nd photo.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2014 13:53:57 GMT
Thank you!
Actually, even though I was raised in a Christian religion, I find that depiction in the 2nd picture pretty disturbing. The author of Autobiography of a Yogi says that when he was told that a symbol of Christianity was a tortured man on a piece of wood, he refused to believe it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 5, 2014 16:43:48 GMT
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 14, 2014 16:26:31 GMT
Some rather more cheerful religious statuary - cherubs (or is it putti, and what's the difference? Not that I'm burning to know) in the Theatinerkirchee, Munich: My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by questa on Jun 14, 2014 23:10:37 GMT
Well spotted, Patrick. So the first cherub is giving someone "the finger" and emphasising it with the other hand, and the second cherub is picking his nose but trying to divert attention away from it...hilarious! Looks like the model is the same kid, too.
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Post by questa on Jun 15, 2014 4:12:31 GMT
Meknes, Morocco. The Water Man. Before bottled water there were water men who carried leather skins filled with potable water for sale. They were a feature of all towns but now not needed. The people of Meknes commissioned this statue to acknowledge passing of the water men and their importance in the community. He no longer has to carry his heavy skin of water.
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Post by questa on Jun 15, 2014 4:32:14 GMT
War Memorial. Almaty, Kazakhstan
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 4:17:37 GMT
Both of those are quite amazing and certainly show that moderate Islamic countries pay no attention to the so-called rule about art not representing human figures.
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Post by bjd on Jun 16, 2014 6:36:23 GMT
That second war memorial was obviously built during Soviet Union times, so nothing to do with Islamic representations of human figures. And Soviet war memorials seem to be monstrously huge by definition.
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 16, 2014 13:58:28 GMT
I like the "What's missing from this picture?" puzzle about the Water Man, but the Kazakh war memorial is extraordinary - so aggressive, and quite a contrast from the relatively restrained style I'm used to for war memorials. In fact, I'm wondering if there mightn't be room for a thread specifically about war memorials, with a view to exploring some of those differences in style and implied statements about war (either in general or specific to particular events) - especially now we're in the "centenary season" for the First World War (though we needn't confine ourselves to that). My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by questa on Jun 17, 2014 0:20:06 GMT
That second war memorial was obviously built during Soviet Union times, And Soviet war memorials seem to be monstrously huge by definition. Found this in Hanoi in 1994.It moved me to think that the Soviets took the glory while the thousands of "little people" paid the price
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 22, 2014 8:12:06 GMT
Two religious statues, from an altarpiece at the parish church in Schwaz, in the Austrian Tirol. There is something just a touch on the camp side about this St George: while the statue on the other side of the altar looks a little more shy (as well he might, in that hat): My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by questa on Jun 22, 2014 9:11:57 GMT
All that gold must have so impressed the congregations they didn't notice the saints. Do you think the maker of the "Georgina" statue was taking the mickey? After all St G is patron saint of England.
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 23, 2014 6:59:52 GMT
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Post by questa on Jun 23, 2014 7:22:19 GMT
I didn't know that, I guess there were dragons to slay all around Europe in those days.
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Post by mossie on Jul 11, 2014 13:35:25 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2014 18:21:17 GMT
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Post by amboseli on Jul 12, 2014 15:14:59 GMT
Great statues! Haven't checked in for quite some time but, hey!, I have pictures of statues to share. Jerez de la Frontera, Spain Los Reyes Cristianos at the Alcázar in Córdoba, Spain Cádiz, Spain Cádiz, Spain
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2014 16:09:01 GMT
Yes, this is what passes for art in public spaces in Vancouver. In the Olympic Village. Huge fibreglass sparrows.
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Post by htmb on Jul 30, 2014 16:11:43 GMT
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Post by fumobici on Jul 30, 2014 18:58:36 GMT
Fiberglass birds are sweeping the globe! Milan, this May.
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Post by amboseli on Jul 30, 2014 18:59:00 GMT
Oh well, they're not too bad. Here are some 'artistic' sculptures. Picture taken inside the Courthouse in Antwerp/Belgium. "De gustibus et coloribus non disputandum est"
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Post by fumobici on Jul 30, 2014 19:18:58 GMT
Although it seems to have grown an elephant's foot. Still, love is blind.
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